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• TikTok parking fine videos force council review

  15-04-2025 07:14 via bbc.com
  
  A social media "investigator" prompts a review of parking signs on a Manchester city centre street.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV to hold his first mass as pontiff as Catholics around the world celebrate – live

  09-05-2025 09:44 via theguardian.com
  Pope will hold private mass in the Sistine Chapel at 0900 GMT, during which he will give his first papal homilyRobert Francis Prevost: the moderate, good humoured first US popePope Leo’s in-tray: pontiff has many urgent issues to addressShare your views on Pope Leo XIVChina has sent congratulations to newly elected Pope Leo XIV and hopes the Vatican under the new pontiff will continue dialogue with China “in a constructive spirit”, Reuters reports a Chinese foreign ministry spo
  
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• Putin hosting Xi Jinping and other world leaders as Russia marks Victory Day – Europe live

  09-05-2025 09:42 via theguardian.com
  Russia staging a lavish, ‘biggest ever’ parade in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world warRussian president Vladimir Putin has just delivered a fairly brief (for his standards) speech at the Victory Day parade in Moscow.He spoke of “joy and sadness, of pride and gratitude … to the generation that crushed the nazism at the cost of millions of lives.” Continue reading...
  
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• UK must rebuild trade relationship with EU, says BoE boss; China-US shipments slump – business live

  09-05-2025 09:39 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsChina exports beat expectations despite slump in trade with USGermany’s stock market has recovered all its losses following Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff shock five weeks ago.The Dax, which tracks the largest companies listed in Frankfurt, has risen over its previous record high – set in March – this morning.The DAX, which had previously lost as much as 16% amid heightened market volatility due
  
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• Billy Woods: Golliwog review – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year

  09-05-2025 09:30 via theguardian.com
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  The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityGolliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are sampled throughout; every so often, an ominous drone will fill a song to the point of overwhelm. On that level alone, New York underground icon Billy Woods’ latest album would be a feat of so
  
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• ‘Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI

  09-05-2025 09:11 via theguardian.com
  CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the businessThe cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to “AI efficiency”.In a note to staff earlier this week, released in stock market filings in the US, CrowdStrike’s chief executive, George Kurtz, announced that 500 positions, or 5% of
  
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• There are three ways moderates could yet save the Tories. One is to renounce Brexit | Polly Toynbee

  09-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  As Kemi Badenoch makes a bad situation worse, and an alliance with Reform looms, I’ve been speaking to centrists desperate to stop the rotThe thanksgiving service for the Tory grandee Michael Ancram last week resembled the funeral of his party. Amid an array of traditional Conservatives such as John Major and a multitude of that old ilk, one observer tells me there was no sign of the current shadow cabinet: they belong to a different party altogether. After their lowest vote ever last week
  
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• ‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?

  09-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)Before she was getting DMs from Dua Lipa and minting K-pop hits, and long before yesterday’s surprise release of her sumptuous fourth album, Erika de Casier was a nervous student in her 20s debating what to wear on her first day.It was 2019, her debut album E
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Leeds, Lions, Zhao Xintong, camogie and F1 winners

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby, snooker, Formula One, cricket, golf, horse racing and GAA? Continue reading...
  
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• Roméo Lavia is the ideal cog in Enzo Maresca’s machine – when he is fit

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Chelsea are far better with Lavia – as they showed against Liverpool – but he is yet to complete a full game for the clubBy WhoScored“When he is fit, he is one of the best midfielders,” enthused Enzo Maresca after Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Everton a few weeks ago. His team had laboured to a narrow home win but the manager was full of praise for his young midfielder. Chelsea have paid huge transfer fees for midfielders in recent years, breaking the British transfer reco
  
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• Manx Liberty’s wildcards deliver in style to regain British team chess crown

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  The Isle of Man team enlisted two young English stars to help regain the 4NCL title that they won in 2022 and 2023The Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) is a bedrock of British chess. Staged over 11 rounds and five weekends from October to May at ­Midlands hotels, with teams of eight in the top division and six in divisions two to four, it attracts players from club level to grandmaster, many of whom do not compete in any other national event. Its organisation, by the ­English Chess Federa
  
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• Lido Pimienta: La Belleza review – Gregorian chant meets dembow rhythm in a work of remarkable depth

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
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  Inspired by the music of Luboš Fiser and Catholic requiem mass, the instrumentals are deft and surprising, but Pimienta’s captivating, flawless vocals steal the showFive years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, singer and producer Lido Pimienta has taken a radical shift in direction. On Miss Colombia, Pimienta combined sprightly electro pop with cumbia rhythms and soaring vocals to critique racism and misogyny – now, her fourth album La Belle
  
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• ‘I’m always fighting myself’: Mohammad Abbas on Notts, Pakistan and Guardiola’s hotel room

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  The seamer on facing his former club Hampshire this week, family tragedy and his stop-start international career“Yes, this is true,” says Mohammad Abbas, matter-of-factly, during a chat at Trent Bridge. The question concerns the time Manchester City supposedly asked for Pep Guardiola to be billeted in the penthouse at Hampshire’s on-site hotel before a match in Southampton – only to be told a more important guest was in town.“I didn’t know about it at the time
  
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• Farrell’s Lions squad has the flexibility and talent to be highly competitive | Robert Kitson

  09-05-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Australia is no country for old men so the exclusion of Owen Farrell and selection of Henry Pollock will help the causeAt long last, significant smoke has also emerged from the British & Irish Lions’ chimney. Maro Itoje will be leading a 38-strong squad to Australia and a couple of the names on the list would raise any cardinal’s eyebrows. Henry Pollock and Marcus Smith will be heading down under with their head coach, Andy Farrell, clearly keen to make an immediate impact next m
  
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• Week in wildlife: A rare chameleon, friendly starlings and hot buffaloes

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• ‘There’s a battle going on for the soul of America’: actor Lennie James on political turmoil, zombie terrors and being a black Brit in the US

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor and Walking Dead regular on bringing Bernardine Evaristo’s hit novel Mr Loverman to the small screen, and splitting his time between London and LAHe is almost 40 years into his career, but Lennie James is still keeping things fresh. The 59-year-old south Londoner has run the gauntlet of high-octane TV dramas, playing Morgan Jones for more than 10 years in the wildly successful apocalypse drama The Walking Dead and its spinoff, Fear the Wal
  
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• ‘The softest white sand and crystal-clear water’: readers’ favourite beaches in Europe

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Our tipsters bask in the sunshine at town beaches and ‘secret’ bays from Sweden to the Greek islands
  • Send us a tip on a UK garden – the best wins a £200 holiday voucherWhile staying on the northern Pelion peninsula in Greece we made our way by foot along the coast path to Paralia Fakistra beach, which is only accessible via a walk in from local villages along the coast. The white pebble beach is backed by a freezing cold waterfall, which cools you down after the du
  
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• Murderbot to Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story – the seven best shows to stream this week

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Alexander Skarsgård leads a funny AI sci-fi comedy, while a new documentary fills in gaps about the shockingly grotesque crimes of the notorious couplePerfectly in tune with our current state of low-key but persistent AI panic, this sci-fi comedy stars Alexander Skarsgård as the titular, self-named security cyborg. Skarsgård’s bot has managed to hack itself, but having overridden its programming, it’s unsure of what to do with its freedom. After all, one false move
  
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• Homes for sale in England and Scotland with stunning views – in pictures

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From white stucco on the Dorset coast to a five-bed Highlands cabin, five properties with vistas to take your breath away Continue reading...
  
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• Gunk by Saba Sams review – boozy nights and baby love

  09-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The Send Nudes author’s follow-up conveys a profound message about the insufficiency of the nuclear familyTo be selected for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list two years before your debut novel comes out must bring a certain amount of pressure. Saba Sams had already been named a rising star for her short-story collection, Send Nudes; one of the stories, Blue 4eva, won the 2022 BBC National short story award. Now comes Gunk, titled for the grotty student nightclub managed b
  
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• Erin Patterson’s daughter says accused mushroom poisoner was ‘very good’ cook, murder trial hears

  09-05-2025 07:27 via theguardian.com
  Patterson’s son tells jury eye-fillet steak from leftovers of fatal lunch was ‘some of the best meat I’ve ever had’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastErin Patterson’s children ate the leftovers of her beef wellington lunch after their mother and relatives fell ill eating the same meal the previous day, a court has heard.Videos of interviews the siblings gave separately to police on 16 August 2023 have been shown to the jury in Patterson&rsquo
  
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• TV tonight: can ditching monogamy save these relationships?

  09-05-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Expanding the roster might be just the balm a host of troubled couples need. Plus: Alan Carr oversees a Twickenham stadium makeover. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4
  The eye-popping reality show, in which couples attempt to open their relationships, returns for a third romp. Mark and Tanith wonder if having sex with other people can help build trust – especially after one of them cheated. Then there are childhood sweethearts Chloe and Paul, who have never had sex wit
  
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• China exports beat expectations despite slump in trade with US

  09-05-2025 07:05 via theguardian.com
  April trade data comes the day before representatives from Washington and Beijing were set to meet to discuss Trump’s tariffsChinese trade with the United States slumped in April even as its total exports beat forecasts, official figures show, as trade representatives from both nations prepared to meet this weekend in the midst of a gruelling trade war between the superpower rivals.Exports to the United States – one of China’s top trading partners – fell 17.6% in April, d
  
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• Portrait of a lady: what to wear to an art or music fair

  09-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  We are entering art fair season. This weekend, London plays host to the Affordable one, and in Bristol it’s the final weekend of the People’s Art Fair. Dress to haggle … Continue reading...
  
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• Keir Starmer can’t build a stronger European partnership by stealth. He has to declare it aloud | Rafael Behr

  09-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain has ‘reset’ relations with the EU, but with Farage ascendant again, our politics must be cured of the Brexit virusNot much about Britain’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union is settled, but Keir Starmer can justifiably claim it has been “reset”. That word was artfully chosen before last year’s election to dress low aspiration as high diplomacy. There are 10 days of negotiation before the summit in London, where a new UK-EU partnership is
  
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• If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  09-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  About 270,000 people died in Liberia’s timber trade-fuelled civil war. I helped to rebuild and protect its forests. Now Europe is threatening to undermine all our hard workIt is sad when a ruthless military dictator funds his government by destroying ecologically important rainforest, logging tropical trees and displacing and robbing the people who live in and depend on the forests for their livelihoods and culture.This happened in my country, Liberia. Continue reading...
  
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• Helen Goh’s recipe for matcha madeleines | The sweet spot

  09-05-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Thanks to milk, cool coconut and a luxuriant glaze, these little green tea-laced cakes are a bit moister than your average madeleineDelicate, shell-shaped madeleines are always irresistible, but their charm fades quickly, because these little cakes tend to dry out within hours. To counter that, I’ve taken an untraditional turn by incorporating a little oil and milk to keep them soft and spongy for a couple of days. Matcha, the finely ground green tea powder, comes in a range of grades; use
  
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• Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt

  09-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Mayor to make major policy shift and say scale of housing crisis requires breaking tabooSadiq Khan is announcing plans to build on parts of London’s green belt, in a dramatic shift in housing policy aimed at tackling “the most profound housing crisis in the capital’s history”.In a major speech on Friday, the mayor of London is expected to say the scale of the challenge, which could need about 1m new homes built in the next decade, requires a break from longstanding taboos
  
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• Long Way Home review – Ewan McGregor’s latest motorbike adventure is mesmerising slow TV

  09-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The actor’s new travelogue with Charley Boorman is far from action-packed – and could do with fewer episodes. But watching them ride eventually becomes entrancingThey’ve gone Round, Down and Up, and now, for their fourth season, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are attempting to ride the Long Way Home. In 2020, the long-running blokes-on-bikes travel series was revived by Apple after a 15-year gap, and it set its stars the task of travelling from the southernmost tip of South
  
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• ‘I punched another dad’ – your stories of the worst parent behaviour at kids’ football

  09-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  From rocks being thrown at cars to spectators being given the red cards, readers share their experiences of the most shocking scenes at children’s soccer gamesThe first manager my son had, when he was seven, got the parents together and told us how shouting could affect our sons’ development and behaviour, not only as players but as human beings. Usually, I don’t behave so badly. The worst I’ve done is to complain to the referee and I’ve sworn once or twice. But mos
  
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